Jean Paul
film producer, film actor, stunt performer, stage actor, actor, theatrical director
Read on Wikipedia1933 – 2021
All Quotes by Jean Paul
“God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.”
“On the church vaulting above was the clock-face of eternity, void of number and serving as its own hand, only one black finger was pointing and the dead wanted to tell the time by it.”
“Age does not matter if the matter does not age.”
“Music is the moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
“When Antipater demanded fifty children as hostages from the Spartans, they offered him, in their stead, a hundred men of distinction; unlike ordinary educators, who precisely reverse the offering. The Spartans thought rightly and nobly. In the world of childhood all posterity stands before us, upon which we, like Moses upon the promised land, may only gaze, but not enter.”
“The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil; the future, the virgin's.”
“The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.”
“No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God. With an orphaned heart, which has lost the greatest of fathers, he stands mourning by the immeasurable corpse of nature, no longer moved and sustained by the Spirit of the universe.”
“The life of Christ concerns Him who, being the holiest among the mighty, and the mightiest among the holy, lifted with His pierced hand empires off their hinges, and turned the stream of centuries out of its channel, and still governs the ages.”
“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.”
“The last, best fruit that comes to perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard; forbearance toward the unforbearing; warmth of heart toward the cold; and philanthropy toward the misanthropic.”
“When in your last hour (think of this) all faculty in the broken spirit shall fade away, and sink into inanity — imagination, thought, effort, enjoyment — then will the flower of belief, which blossoms even in the night, remain to refresh you with its fragrance in the last darkness.”
“The grandest of heroic deeds are those which are performed within four walls and in domestic privacy.”
“The wish falls often warm upon my heart that I may learn nothing here that I cannot continue in the other world; that I may do nothing here but deeds that will bear fruit in heaven.”
“The virtues, like the body,become strong more by labor than by nourishment.”
“The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven.”
“Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?”
“How calmly may we commit ourselves to the hands of Him who bears up the world!”
“Lift thyself up, look. around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness.”
“Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.”
“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”
“Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.”
“What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.”
“Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.”
“Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.”
“Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.”
“For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.”
“Live your life and forget your age.”
“Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.”
“Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.”
“Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.”
“Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.”
“Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.”
“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”